# Search function issue

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-function-issue/118274>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [May 21, 2019, 3:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-function-issue/118274 "2019-05-21T03:02:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![traceymoko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/traceymoko/32/483235_2.png) [@traceymoko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/traceymoko)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 4:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-function-issue/118274/6 "2019-05-21T04:40:09Z")

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Hmm I remember reading about stop words somewhere

> [@No search results are shown for stopwords](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-search-results-are-shown-for-stopwords/46541/4):
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> Those are “stop” words Stop words are words that are very common, appear in almost every document, and have no discrimination value. Therefore, they can be ignored in the context of full text searching. For example, every English text contains words like a and the, so it is useless to store them in an index. However, stop words do affect the positions in tsvector, which in turn affect ranking:

I’m not sure about the word ‘give’, but some common English words like ‘a’ and ‘the’ are usually ignored during search. There’s more discussion in that topic but I don’t know if there’s an easy way to fix it.

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